QUALITY PATIENT INDICATOR PROPOSAL2Quality Patient Indicator Proposal- Milestone FourAdequate staffing is crucial to providing professional nursing value. Current nursingstaffing systems are often outdated and inflexible. Greater benefit can be derived from staffingmodels that consider the nurse-to-patient ratios and can be adjusted to account for unit and shiftlevel factors (Avalere Health, 2015). Some of the factors that contribute to necessity of increasedstaffing level include the acuity and complexity of patients, flow of admission, discharge,transfers, competency of staff, layout of the unit and resources and technology available toprovide care. If we can identify the flaws within a system, we can understand how to correct errors thatmay cause patient harm. It is important to understand the areas of deficiencies where it isaffected due to low staffing. “System tracers refer to 6 topics that involve general procedure in anentire institution in regards to data management, infection control, medication management,National Patient Safety goals, contracted services performance monitoring, and incident or errorreporting” (Siewert, 2017). As a team, build high-level process map for all patient care areas thatwere traced. Staffing can affect the care provided and directly impact the quality of outcome.

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